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Ode to a Nightingale   One must be armed with a little knowledge of Greek mythology before victorious on Keats Hyperion, for example, is filled with allusions to Miltons Paradise Lost.  After reading and re-reading Ode on a Grecian Urn I decided that it would be best to totally explanation on Ode to a Nightingale (because Im baffled with Keats).  I found him genuinely hard to understand.  You cant just sit down and read Keats like a Grimms fairy tale.  Keats must be read with great scrutiny otherwise, youll misfire his point.  I only pray that my readings and poor mind will overhaul some sort of justice to Keatss monumental work Ode to a Nightingale.   The song begins with Keatss, with his complaint about humanity.  He is filled with heartaches and a drowsy emotionlessness pains and a feeling of forgetfulness as if hemlock I had drunk.  liveliness has brought him to a  state of forgetfulness and is bewildered to find a light-winge d Dryad Nightingale of the trees that is be too happy in thine happiness and singing of summer in full throated ease. Keats would love to join the song of the Nightingale moreover has no way except through end, besides even death is painful.  Keats doesnt want any more pain that life has to offer so he talks about a vintage wine that hath been Coold a keen-sighted age. . . With beaded bubbles winking at the brim and he hopes that he talent drink, and leave the valet unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim. With the wine Keats hopes to surpass far away. . . from The weariness, the fever, and the fret of life.  Mans drink is his only escape from this life but then he writes that he doesnt want to join nature and travel to the Nightingale charioted by wine but of poetic imagination.  Because too ofttimes wine would bring pain in the morning and would only plosive consonant pain for a while.   Once the drug has run its final line he would be in mo re pain then before.  If only this world could fade away so that he could join the world of nature where he could be too happy in thine happiness.   He wants to leave this world That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, he wants to Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget everything.